In the United States, there are more male doctors than female. In 2023, the share of female doctors amounted to just **** percent, although this has increased by *** percent compared to 2021. However, there were large variations depending on the specialty. ************* were most likely to be women (among the major specialties**). Meanwhile, only ***** other specialties had more female than male physicians.

In 2025, out of the *** thousand registered doctors in the United Kingdom, *** thousand were men and *** thousand were women. There was a more pronounced gender gap among specialist doctors in the UK, with ** thousand men to nearly ** thousand women qualified on the specialist register. Although on the GP register, women outnumber men with over ** thousand female GPs to nearly ** thousand male GPs. Gender distribution of UK doctors by age While there are **** male doctors than female doctors in total, the gender distribution of doctors in the UK looks different depending on the age group. Female doctors ********* their male counterpart in all age groups under 45 years old. Therefore, as more doctors retire, the proportion of female doctors will increase. Worldwide make-up of doctors in the UK Although the majority of medical practitioners in the UK received their medical qualification from within the UK, there is still a significant number of doctors who graduated outside the UK. As of 2024, some ** percent of registered doctors in the UK are from the European Economic Area (EEA) while a further third are international medical graduates (IMG) indicating the reliance of the NHS on immigration to support the organization’s workforce.

Introduction

Male and Female Doctor Statistics: Male and female doctors play a crucial role in the medical industry, significantly impacting healthcare across various fields. Traditionally, the profession has been male-dominated, but in recent years, gender dynamics have shifted noticeably. The increasing number of women in healthcare has led to more gender diversity, especially in clinical and leadership roles.

Recent statistics indicate a steady increase in the proportion of female doctors, gradually narrowing the gender gap that once favoured men. However, male doctors continue to dominate in certain fields, particularly those that require physical strength, and maintain a stronger presence in senior leadership positions within healthcare organisations. These shifting gender trends are impacting the future of the medical profession, influencing patient care and the broader structure of healthcare delivery.

The number of male physicians outnumbers female physicians in the U.S. in most specialties. The only major exceptions are found in pediatrics, child and adolescent psychiatry, obstetrics and gynecology, although female physicians do slightly outnumber males in a few other specialties. As of 2021, there were around 68,400 male family medicine/general practice physicians compared to 50,000 women in this specialty. Physicians in the U.S. Both the number of doctors and rate of doctors in the U.S. have increased over the years. As of 2021, there were around 946,800 active doctors of medicine in the U.S. This was around 29.9 physicians per 10,000 civilian population. In 1995, this rate stood at 24.2 physicians per 10,000 population. Physicians by state The states with the highest overall number of active physicians are California, New York, Texas, and Florida. However, the states with the highest rate of physicians per 10,000 civilian population include Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Maryland. The District of Columbia has the highest rate of physicians by a large margin, with around 74.6 physicians per 10,000 population. The state with the highest annual compensation for physicians is Oklahoma, where physicians earn an annual average of 337,000 dollars.

As of April 2025, around 39 percent of professionally active licensed physicians in the United States were women. This has increased by one percent compared to the previous year. Over half, 51 percent, of physicians in the District of Columbia were women, the highest share of female physicians in the country. On the other hand, Idaho had the lowest share of female physicians in the U.S. at 29 percent.

This statistic shows the distribution of specialist physicians in Canada from 1978 to 2023, sorted by gender. In 2022, nearly 41 percent of specialty doctors in Canada were female, and some 59 percent were male.

In the African region, female physicians accounted for only 28 percent of all physicians. This was in contrast to the European region where 53 percent of physicians were female. The statistic shows the gender distribution of physicians worldwide from 2000 to 2018, by region.

In 2019, there were around **** thousand doctors in Nigeria for a population of about *** million people. The majority of them were male doctors, which accounted for ** percent of the total. From 2017 to 2019, the percentage of female doctors remained stable at about ** percent.

About this dataset

Context

The dataset tabulates the population of Medical Lake by gender, including both male and female populations. This dataset can be utilized to understand the population distribution of Medical Lake across both sexes and to determine which sex constitutes the majority.

Key observations

There is a slight majority of male population, with 51.97% of total population being male. Source: U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey (ACS) 2017-2021 5-Year Estimates.

Content

When available, the data consists of estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey (ACS) 2017-2021 5-Year Estimates.

Scope of gender :

Please note that American Community Survey asks a question about the respondents current sex, but not about gender, sexual orientation, or sex at birth. The question is intended to capture data for biological sex, not gender. Respondents are supposed to respond with the answer as either of Male or Female. Our research and this dataset mirrors the data reported as Male and Female for gender distribution analysis. No further analysis is done on the data reported from the Census Bureau.

Variables / Data Columns

• Gender: This column displays the Gender (Male / Female)
• Population: The population of the gender in the Medical Lake is shown in this column.
• % of Total Population: This column displays the percentage distribution of each gender as a proportion of Medical Lake total population. Please note that the sum of all percentages may not equal one due to rounding of values.

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As of January 2024, the number of active doctors registered in Brazil amounted to more than *** thousand professionals. Out of the total, around *** thousand were men, and about *** thousand women practiced medicine in the South American country. Thus, there were approximately **** women doctors for each male physician practicing in Brazil by that time.

Graph and download economic data for Employed full time: Wage and salary workers: Medical and health services managers occupations: 16 years and over: Men (LEU0254580500A) from 2000 to 2024 about management, medical, occupation, males, full-time, health, salaries, workers, 16 years +, wages, services, employment, and USA.

Graph and download economic data for Employed full time: Wage and salary workers: Physicians and surgeons occupations: 16 years and over: Men (LEU0254594400A) from 2000 to 2019 about surgeons, physicians, medical, occupation, males, full-time, salaries, workers, 16 years +, wages, employment, and USA.

Background: There is an attrition of women physicians in academic medicine hierarchy. Scholarship in medical journals plays a direct role in career advancement, promotion, and authoritative recognition, and women physician authors are underrepresented in original research articles. Objectives: We sought to determine if women physician authors are similarly underrepresented in commentary articles within high impact journals. Design/Setting/Participants: In this observational study, we abstracted gender, degree, and authorship position from January 1, 2014 to October 16, 2018 among commentary articles in three high impact journals: 1) JAMA Viewpoint; 2) NEJM Perspective; and 3) Annals of Internal Medicine Ideas and Opinions. Primary Outcome Measure: To compare the percentages of authors by gender, degree, authorship position, and journal in commentary articles, and assess for trends over a five-year period. Secondary Outcome Measures: To compare the proportion of men and women physician authorship of commentaries relative to the proportion of men and women physician faculty within academic medicine. To examine the gender concordance between last and first authors. Results: Of the 2,087 articles during the study period, 48% were men physician first authors compared to 17% women physician first authors (p<0.0001). Of the 1,477 articles with more than one author, similar distributions were found with regard to last authors: 55% were men physicians compared to only 12% of women physicians (p<0.0001). The proportion of women physician first authors increased over time, however the proportion of women physician last authors remained stagnant. Women authors in the first and last position were concordant in 9% of articles, men authors in the first and last author position were concordant in 55% of articles. Conclusions: Women physician authors remain underrepresented in commentary articles compared to men physician authors in the first and last author position. The proportion of women first authors was lowest with a women last author.

In 2023, around ** percent of Hispanic men in the United States stated they had no personal doctor or health care provider. This statistic shows the percentage of men in the U.S. who reported having no personal doctor or health care provider in 2023, by race and ethnicity.

Paternal age at the child’s conception and the proportion of female children.

The number of physicians across the United States reveals significant variations, with California leading the pack at nearly ******* active doctors as of April 2025. This concentration of medical professionals in populous states highlights the ongoing challenge of ensuring adequate healthcare access nationwide. The stark contrast between California's physician count and Wyoming's mere ***** doctors underscores the need for targeted efforts to address healthcare workforce shortages in less populated areas. Primary care and specialist distribution California leads also in both primary care physicians and specialists, accounting for over ** percent of each category nationally. This concentration of medical expertise in California reflects broader trends, with New York and Texas following as the states with the highest numbers of active primary care physicians. The distribution of specialists also mirrors national patterns, with psychiatry, surgery, and anaesthesiology among the most common specialties. Physician burnout While the number of physicians continues to grow, physician burnout remains a significant issue. There are large variations in rates of burnout depending on a physician's gender and specialty. For example, burnout is disproportionally high among women, affecting ** percent of female physicians and ** percent of male physicians. Meanwhile, emergency medicine physicians reported the highest levels of burnout among specialists, highlighting the need for targeted interventions to support the individual needs of doctors depending on their different circumstances.

Doctor checkup past 12 months by sex, race/ethnicity, and grade, California Healthy Kids Survey, 2015-16METADATA:Notes (String): Lists table title, sourceYear (String): Year of surveyCategory (String): Lists the category representing the data: Santa Clara County is for total surveyed population, sex: Male and Female, race/ethnicity: African American, Asian/Pacific Islander, Latino and White (non-Hispanic White only) and grade level (7th, 9th, 11th, or non-traditional).Percent (Numeric): Percentage of middle and high school students who had a doctor checkup in the past 12 months

In general the data on medical personnel encompass the time interval from 1806 to 1938. The number of general hospitals, the number of beds and the number of patients cared for are available for the time interval 1876 to 1938. Under the main heading medical personnel figures are available for doctors, pharmacies, dentists and midwives. The second large figures series concerns hospitals. Here all information that seemed clear and reliable enough and beyond this made possible construction of long series was first available in 1876. Research area: regional differentiation on the level of federal states; as of 1950: of the states; on the level of administrative districts or corresponding subdivisions of the federal states. The medical personnel: territory units are Prussia (entire state, provinces as well as administrative districts); Bavaria (Bavaria, Upper and Lower Bavaria, Rhein-Palatinate, Upper Palatinate, Upper, Middle and Lower Franconia, Swabia), Hesse (Hesse, Starkenburg, Upper Hesse, Rheinhessen), Baden (Baden, Constance, Freiburg, Karlsruhe, Mannheim), Braunschweig, Anhalt, Bremen, Hamburg, Luebeck, Elsass-Lothringen, Saarland, Reuss, Saxony (Saxony, Bautzen, Dresden, Zwickau, Chemnitz, Leipzig), Wuerttemberg (Wuerttemberg, Donaukreis, Jagstkreis, Neckarkreis, Schwarzwaldkreis); German Reich. Number of general hospitals, number of beds and number of patients cared for: territory units are Prussia (entire state, provinces as well as administrative districts); Bavaria, Saxony, Wuerttemberg, Baden, Hesse, Mecklenburg, Schwerin, Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Saxony, Oldenburg, Braunschweig, Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt, Schwarzburg-Sonderhausen, Waldeck, Reuss, Schaumburg-Lippe, Lippe, Luebeck, Bremen, Hamburg; Thuringia (as of 1920), Schaumburg-Lippe (as of 1920), Saarland (as of 1935); German Reich.

Pakistan Number of Students: Professional Colleges: Medical: Male data was reported at 48.000 Person in 2016. This records an increase from the previous number of 47.000 Person for 2015. Pakistan Number of Students: Professional Colleges: Medical: Male data is updated yearly, averaging 29.500 Person from Jun 1997 (Median) to 2016, with 20 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 48.000 Person in 2016 and a record low of 24.000 Person in 1998. Pakistan Number of Students: Professional Colleges: Medical: Male data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Pakistan Bureau of Statistics. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Pakistan – Table PK.G010: Education Statistics: Number of Students.

Despite decades of low utilization, telemedicine adoption expanded at an unprecedented rate during the COVID-19 pandemic. This study examined quantitative and qualitative data provided by a national online sample of 228 practicing physicians (64% were women, and 75% were White) to identify facilitators and barriers to the adoption of telemedicine in the United States (U.S.) at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. Logistic regressions were used to predict the most frequently endorsed (20% or more) barriers and facilitators based on participant demographics and practice characteristics. The top five reported barriers were: lack of patient access to technology (77.6%), insufficient insurance reimbursement (53.5%), diminished doctor-patient relationship (46.9%), inadequate video/audio technology (46.1%), and diminished quality of delivered care (42.1%). The top five reported facilitators were: better access to care (75.4%), increased safety (70.6%), efficient use of time (60.5%), lower cost for patients (43%), and effectiveness (28.9%). Physicians’ demographic and practice setting characteristics significantly predicted their endorsement of telemedicine barriers and facilitators. Older physicians were less likely to endorse inefficient use of time (p < 0.001) and potential for medical errors (p = 0.034) as barriers to telemedicine use compared to younger physicians. Physicians working in a medical center were more likely to endorse inadequate video/audio technology (p = 0.037) and lack of patient access to technology (p = 0.035) as a barrier and more likely to endorse lower cost for patients as a facilitator (p = 0.041) than providers working in other settings. Male physicians were more likely to endorse inefficient use of time as a barrier (p = 0.007) than female physicians, and White physicians were less likely to endorse lower costs for patients as a facilitator (p = 0.012) than physicians of color. These findings provide important context for future implementation strategies for healthcare systems attempting to increase telemedicine utilization.